Serbia's Land Registry Opens 10 Request Types at Counters
The Republic Geodetic Authority has reopened its counters: from October 12, citizens can file ten types of requests in person, without a lawyer or surveyor. Fees stay, the target is 3 to 5 days.
Can you deal with the land registry without a lawyer or a surveyor? For ten types of requests you can, starting Monday, October 12, 2026. Real estate cadastre services will accept them at the counter, with no appointment and no intermediary, says acting director of the Republic Geodetic Authority (RGZ) Dalibor Babic.
What changed after three years?
According to the RGZ website, registration in the cadastre has been exclusively digital since November 4, 2023, with expert support from professional users, meaning lawyers and surveying firms. Every request that had previously been filed at the counters has since gone through them alone.
Now part of that work is returning to citizens. Babic told RTS that the aim is to simplify procedures and resolve cases as fast as possible, ideally within three to five days.
Which requests can you file yourself?
RTS reports that the new services include deleting annotations, converting the right of use into ownership, correcting errors, registering and supplementing data on properties and owners, and filing extraordinary legal remedies. The full list of all ten request types is on the RGZ website.
Everything else is still filed by professional users. For more complex procedures, it is reported, an expert is still required.
What should you bring, and what does it cost?
Babic says you should bring whatever documentation you have, and staff will help you pick out what is needed. He also said:
“Our counter staff are available to listen politely, to explain what the procedure is and what the next steps are.”
Only filing a request without an intermediary is free. The prescribed administrative fees remain in force, and the amounts were not published in the sources we reviewed. Fee exemptions are provided for vulnerable groups.
Babic added that through the “Directly to the Director” channel, citizens most often point to unclear procedures and long waits. This is how he described what citizens need from a counter:
“What matters to citizens is that their problems get solved. They do not have to know the law, or which article applies to their registration.”
Before you go
RGZ’s priority is registering ownership under the “Svoj na svome” law, so work has been reassigned and more than 120 employees from headquarters have been brought in. Babic claims that the Spatial Planning Agency has issued more than a million certificates, which is nearly 50 percent of the number of applications submitted.
One warning for two towns: because a new cadastre information system is being introduced, the real estate cadastre services in Negotin and Kladovo will not accept requests in person from Friday, October 9, through Wednesday, October 21, 2026.
